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Thanks are owed to Sri Kidambi Soundararajan for mentioning
the Sri yOGa narasimha shrine in vELa-chEri (common spelling
Velachery), the well-known suburb of Chennai.

This appears, from my cursory deciphering of the Grantha
lithic inscriptions in the temple, a Pallava temple. The Pallava-s
had a special adoration for the dear narasimha manifestation of the
Lord, just to mention Velachery, SinGa-perumAL-kOyil near
Chengalpattu, SOLinGa-puram etc.

This temple is among the blessed sites which are well
maintained in this region (and the rally of devotees here is
for the obviously popular and sadly wrong reason of identifying
Sri narasimha as the fearful deity, as with heathen personifications).

There is a stunningly beautiful and majestic 
(viGraha-archA of) Sri vEda / yajna nArAyaNa-svAmi
(who must have been the presiding deity of this place
originally known as 'vELvi-c-cheri', or yajna-SAlA),
besides a vivid (and unusually large) maNavALa-mA-muni
(looking a twin of mA-muni in Tirupati Govindaraja-svami
shrine) in the same shrine. The archaka-s, however,
discourage you in offering 'archanam' to the two, viz., 
Sri yajna-nArAyaNa and mA-muni.

aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan,
T.S. Sundara Rajan, at Srirangam.

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Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:20 PM
Subject: [ramanuja] Digest Number 591

Message: 6
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:42:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: vimalkumar ranganathan <panardasan@xxxx>
Subject: Yoga Narasimha Temple at Velachery

Sri:
Srimate Ramanujaya Nama:
Srimath Varavara Munaye Nama:

Dear Vaishnavas,
I had gone to India,... Velachery, one of the 
popular suburbs of Madras. Not many realize that there is a 
really beautiful temple dedicated to Lord Sri Yoga Narasimha 
Swami. He is four-armed, with the two front arms resting 
on his lap symbolizing his state of Yoga. 
Supposed to be a very powerful deity... 
The temple is very easily accessible by any 
mode of transport. Situated on the Velachery Main road, 
there is a bus-stand located less then 100 yards from the temple, 
all sorts of Metro buses (normal, express, etc..) stopping there. 
I request all the adiyaars in this forum residing 
abroad to make it a point to visit this temple and seek the 
blessings and grace of Swami Yoga Narasimhar, the next time 
they get to visit India. The adiyaars living in Madras should visit 
(or rather rush to!!) the temple definitely. 
If I am right, the timings are : 8.00 - 10.30 AM 
and 5.30 - 8.30 in the evenings. 

the Vaishnavas in the forum can peruse the following link:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/02/06/stories/2003020600690300.htm

I shall scan and upload the picture of the Moolavar in another mail.

AazhwAr emperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLe Saranam. 
Dasan,
Kidambi Soundararajan.



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